Royal Mail is recruiting 19,000 people to help out with bulging post bags over Christmas. The privatised postal operator will take on 15,000 in England, 1,100 in Scotland, 600 in Wales and 400 in Northern Ireland for temporary sorting roles between mid November and early January 2015. A further 2,000 people will be hired to […]
The Postal Service constantly seeks to improve customer service, and so do other posts around the world. In the United Kingdom, about 100 Royal Mail delivery offices will be open on Sunday afternoons, the newly privatized organization announced recently. The pilot program is slated to begin later in the summer. Most Royal Mail delivery offices […]
The Times reports today that taxpayers may be over £1 billion worse off as a result of the UK government’s decision to sell-off Royal Mail well below City banks’ estimates. It is possible that as early as this week it will be confirmed that a range of investment banks valued Royal Mail last spring at […]
(Reuters) – Britain embarked on its largest privatisation in decades on Thursday as the government unveiled plans to sell the majority of the near 500-year-old state-owned Royal Mail postal service. The Department for Business said a stock market flotation, fiercely opposed by unions, would take place in coming weeks, giving the public a chance to […]